Nora's role as a mother and wife in the late eighteen-hundreds is to care for the children and decorate and clean the house. However, she goes far beyond the norm for that time period. Though Nora starts out bland, she comes to think for herself and decides, quite rightly, that the best choice is for her to leave her family forever. Nora and Torvald are not in love, are not happy with each other, and have been living in Torvald's perverted sense of their home as a dollhouse for much of their lives. Everyone expects Nora to continue being her clueless self, and surely causes an uproar when the town discovers that she's gone. In this way, Nora defeats the pressures of society, and all she had to give up was her entire life.
